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Date:      Sat, 23 Jun 2012 21:00:36 -0700
From:      Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Ports Management Team <portmgr@freebsd.org>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: irc/xchat: limit icon blinking time
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Adding portmgr here to cc: should we accept new patches which add
additional features or fix upstream bugs, not specific to us, as local
FreeBSD ports trees patches?

On 23 June 2012 18:45, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Several of my ports, to start with. Which is why I'm concerned at your
> attempt to change policy by fiat.

I'm not attempting to change anything. FWIW, why don't you upstream
the patches in your ports?

>> Our own stuff is completely unrelated. The question at hand is do we
>> continue development of third party software by means of patches to
>> the ports tree?
>> And the answer has always been, "Yes." I have no idea where you got any
> other idea.

As I understand it the answer has always been no: we don't continue
development of third party software in ports more than necessary to
make it function on FreeBSD.



-- 
Eitan Adler



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